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Latitude: 55.5965 / 55°35'47"N
Longitude: -2.4337 / 2°26'1"W
OS Eastings: 372768
OS Northings: 633737
OS Grid: NT727337
Mapcode National: GBR C3FQ.XM
Mapcode Global: WH8XZ.LL9J
Plus Code: 9C7VHHW8+HG
Entry Name: St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Abbey Court, Kelso
Listing Name: Abbey Court St Andrew's Episcopal Church and Churyard Walls
Listing Date: 2 July 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 380322
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35689
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kelso, Abbey Court, St Andrew's Episcopal Church
ID on this website: 200380322
Location: Kelso
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Kelso
Electoral Ward: Kelso and District
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Tagged with: Church building
Robert Rowand Anderson, 1868-9; porch enlarged 1890; geometric Gothic, bull-faced coursed rubble with yellow freestone dressings;
4 bay aisled nave with a single two-light decorated window between buttresses per bay at the aisles and paired circular clerestory windows. At the west end of the south aisle a gabled porch, 1890, replaces the original gabled doorway. From the angle between the south aisle and the
Chancel two tall stepped buttresses rise to clasp a small lancetted drum turret with a small conical spire. This has diminutive lucarnes and is banded with red sandstone and incised ornament, weather-vane at summit. Square ended chancel 2 bays, with 2 light decorated window
between buttresses per bay. Tall slated roofs with ornamental tiled ridge and cross-finials at gables.
INTERIOR: good contemporary furnishings including sculptured reredos carved and signed by James Forsyth with scenes depicting Moses striking rock for water, Israelites collecting manna, and at centre Agony in Garden. Chancel ceiling has fine stencilled decoration. Stained glass by Douglas Strachan 1940s.
Built on site of church of 1769. Churchyard contains many memorials from the earlier church including good gothic bas-relief with weeping figure, by H Weekes of John Robertson of Ednam of 1844.
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